I use these to heat and eat soup, for tea, coffee and cocoa, and even food sometimes. They hold up just great, plenty durable.I’m not sure why people would complain that they are hot to the touch when they put hot stuff in them...it kind of reminds me of the McDonald’s lady incident, placing a cup of scalding hot coffee between her legs, spilling the coffee in her lap, and then complaining that it burned her. Hmmm...these are cups for hot beverages, or even food on the go would work great. So...the thing is, these are disposable paper cups, not double-walled, insulated cups with a soppy lid. I usually don’t fill mine all the way to the top, that’s deliberate for me, I get a size bigger than I would need for most purposes, so things can bubble a bit in the microwave when I use them to heat things. I sometimes even trim it down an inch or two, depending on what I’m using them for; the lack of the rolled edge allows me to squeeze the edge into a pour spout and pour out of it more easily.Hot things are hot, so I usually hold it by the top rolled or cut edge when whatever I have in it is still very hot. You would have to be careful of steam burns, if you need to be reminded that steam is hot, can burn, and tends to rise up. Or, when necessary, I just whip out some common sense right out of my back pocket, and take a piece of paper towel, fold it in thirds or fourths lengthwise, and wrap it around the cup if I really need the extra heat protection. If I really needed it to stay there, I’d slap on a piece of tape, too. Then, as the contents cool, I just use that folded piece of paper towel for a napkin, or I could even use it again for the same purpose.The manufacturer is not marketing it as something with lids or something with a little extra landfill waste in the way of unnecessary heat protection, which I prefer not to have included. I rarely need it. A piece of paper towel can be are used for another cup wrap later, or for spills, crumbs from that snack that goes with the beverage, or even a nose. If people need the whole package deal, sippy cup lids and cardboard heat wraps,, they should buy that instead.But if they are looking for some good, sturdy paper cups for their average hot beverages or even food, like noodles or leftovers or breakfast to go, and they don’t need the fussy extras, these are great. As long as they remain affordable, I will keep buying them.Side note for those struggling with picking up just one cup from the stack... In the event that one cup doesn’t dislodge at there merest whisper of a touch, I just give the rim an ever-so-slight squeeze and a bit of a twist (it’s all in the wrist), and out it comes, effortless, no problem at all. For people that struggle with this, it’s probably preferable to have to nudge one ever so slightly than if they pull one cup which pulls a whole bunch of them out onto the floor because they’re loose and slippery.Personally, I do not encounter any difficulties in using paper cups of any kind, and these are no exception. Sturdy, great quality, (the fact that they are marketed for hot beverages has nothing to do with whether or not people can hold them with their bare hands when they have put scalding hot liquid in it, it has to do with the cups holding up and not coming apart or melting when containing hot liquids, like a plastic or wax cup might and usually would do. They’re heavier and more sturdy than your average paper cup. That’s what they’re marketed to do, and they do the job just great!So, for durability, I could reuse them and refill them a few times if I chose to do so, and if I drank that much coffee or tea in a day, I would. I have also used them for mixing test batches of natural hair dyes, with no leaking or staining of anything (but the inside of the cup, as it should be).